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Gingerbread is one of my favorite themes to do at Christmas time! I just love the cute little brown guys, and of course the fabulous books to read! On Monday we read a few versions of the Gingerbread Man and ended with Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett. I must say, this is one of my all time favorite books...EVER. The illustrations in this story are just priceless! And the story has a little twist in it that makes it just different enough from the traditional gingerbread man story. I love it!

After we read our gingerbread stories, we headed to the table for some yummy fun! We made our annual gingerbread house...and ate lots of the candy treats while we worked. Here is our beautiful creation.

After making our gingerbread house, and then watching it fall apart, we worked on a few crafts. (I did use a different kind of frosting this year, maybe that was the problem? Oh well, this is one of those activities where the experience is worth more than the actual finished product, especially with our decorating skills.)

We made these cute little gingerbread men to hang on our Christmas tree. I cut the gingerbread men out of brown cardstock. Then I spread glue all over them and let the kids sprinkle cinnamon all over them. Mmmm, smells good!

Then, they decorated with buttons, sequins and other crafty items. Now these little guys are happily hanging on our tree.

We also worked on this cute little booklet from HSS! Each page has you taking a bite of the gingerbread cookie, so Emily tore off that body part for the appropriate words on each page. By the way, Hannah would have NO PART in tearing up the pretty gingerbread men she has just worked so hard to color! It was pretty funny!! So, she made her own book and actually went so far as to cut off the words on her booklet so that it wouldn't say "eat one yummy arm" etc. What a funny girl!